Using InetSoft Dashboard Data Table Feature

InetSoft's dashboard software includes an easy-to-use data table that facilitates the design layout of reports that feature complex data sets. View the example below to learn more about the Style Intelligence Solution.

To use a Worksheet Data Table in a report, follow the steps below.

1. Click the 'Options' button in the Worksheet toolbar, and verify that 'As data source to reports' is enabled. This makes the Worksheet visible for data binding in reports.

2. In Report Designer, open the report template in which you want to access the Worksheet table.

3. Open the 'Data Binding' dialog box for the report element (table, chart, section, etc.) that you want to bind to the Worksheet table.

4. In the Data tab of the 'Data Binding' dialog box, expand the 'Worksheet' node on the tree.

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To use a Data Table from the Asset Repository in a Worksheet, follow these steps:

1. Open the Worksheet in which you want to use the Data Table.

2. Select the desired Data Table asset (Worksheet) in the Asset Repository.

3. Drag the Data Table from the Asset Repository into the Worksheet. This adds the Data Table to the Worksheet as a new Table. Note that only the Primary Data Table of the Worksheet in the Repository is added to the new Worksheet.

4. Rename the new table as desired. The new Data Table remains linked to the original Worksheet, and columns of the new table can therefore not be deleted. If 'Auto Update' is set on the new table, changes made to the original table will automatically propagate to the new table.

InetSoft Viewpoint

"You actually use more business intelligence capabilities. So in between the execution phase and the final evaluation, you’re constantly tracking and monitoring your performance so you can tune your execution. That’s where business intelligence with dashboards for analysis and monitoring come in. And in between the evaluation phase and incorporating your learnings or findings and adapting your strategy, you need to do some in-depth analytics.

That’s the more traditional forecasting or predictive analytics as well as things like data mining. So there is a piece that is more business intelligence as it relates to the management system, and then there is a piece that is more performance management, and you couple them together.

After some months of active use of the platform, go back to the users and find out where they get value out of the system, what they’ve been using it for, and start to use those thought leaders, the folks that have been the most aggressive users getting this value out of it. Use them, perhaps, as a way to add the additional performance management capabilities into the organization." - Mark Flaherty, CMO, InetSoft

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